Comment by robbomacrae
13 days ago
“Kier Starmer seemed to actually be doing OK” as someone who voted for his Labour I was immediately regretting it when they tried to force Apple to open a backdoor and they are still trying! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/uk-still-trying-backdo...
Your single-issue concerns are valid, but most people view an executive office's performance as a holistic union of their stances on issues.
I’m not a single issue voter but the sheer incompetence of this particular decision is just too damning. It rightly caused friction with our 5 eyes partners. I would expect readers of hackernews to appreciate how dumb and impossible the request was.
> "It rightly caused friction with our 5 eyes partners"
That is such a weird take. "It rightly caused friction with Privacy International" might be a better position to take ;)
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Privacy concerns have pretty broad opposition in the UK, unfortunately.